Counter- propaganda and Citizen Journalism since 2014

Still active at the time of writing, 16.6.18 at 09.09am, the Scotsman’s poll had a sample of 8 149. This is quite a big sample compared to that of 1 000 used typically by most polling companies but it is quite limited in reliability by being self-selecting. Intriguingly though and perhaps raising the reliability a bit, you needed to have an account with the Scotsman (not necessarily paying) to vote, and, judging by readers comments over the years, there is some evidence that the Scotsman tends to attract No rather than Yes supporters. Of course, I have no empirical evidence of this nor can we really assume anything about the representativeness of the sample. Also, likely to be factors in this response, will be the SNP walk-out, the consequent Tory benches sneering, Mundell’s mendacity and the conversion of Murray Foote, the ‘man behind the Vow’, to the independence cause.

In response to the question: ‘Has the Brexit process made you more or less likely to vote for Scottish independence?’:

17 thoughts on “60% support for independence according to poll in, of all places, the Scotsman”

Remember the poll near the end of the 2014 referendum giving Yes a small lead. This was used as the starting gun for a last ditch onslaught by Westminster. Is that what this Scotsman poll is, a starting gun for the Unionists. In a Unionist paper?

Certainly explains a lot!! Twitter is absolutely HOOCHIN’ with trolls, who are admitting quite openly & freely that they lied to pensioners & about our economy just to keep Scotland in the Union, to get their hands on our oil. They admit quite frankly they don’t want US Scots – just the oil. Lovely… Lol! It’s a fair comment – I don’t want to be in their union…. But that DANG BLACK STUFF!! If it wasn’t for that, we’d have been free 4 years ago! Dearie me… LOL!